Similar Search Results

NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT & MANAGEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE IN PORTUGUESE HIGHER EDUCATION

Batiz-Lazo, Bernardo; Gomes, Jorge; Mendes, Maria - EconWPA - 2002

This chapter uses key concepts in the knowledge management literature to analyse the procedures and practices used by a project management team to identify, create, store, disseminate, and apply knowledge management systems for successful project completion. This project allowed a long...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412984

Wissensmanagement und Controlling: Eine Forschungsperspektive? [Engl.: Knowledge Management and Management Control Systems: A New Research Field?]

Kunz, Jennifer; Linder, Stefan - EconWPA - 2005

GERMAN ABSTRACT: Wissensmanagement und Controlling werden seit Jahrzehnten parallel in der betriebswirt …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413095

Adoption of Product and Process Innovations in Differentiated

Weiss, Pia - EconWPA - 2002

products. Firms' weakly favour a process innovation if the degree of product differentiation (competition) is high (low). In … product innovation are found to be the critical assumptions in the sense of Milgrom and Roberts (1994). …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561419

Product and Process Innovations in a Horizontally Differentiated Product Market

Weiss, Pia - EconWPA - 2002

firm’s decision between a product and process innovation. When firms have to choose between the two types of innovation, it … is demonstrated that both firms undertake the product innovation when the competi-tion is intense. For intermediate … depending on the innovation cost structure. Again, the firms are willing to incur higher costs into product innovations, when …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561461

Communities of Practice: Going One Step Too Far?

Kimble, Chris; Hildreth, Paul - EconWPA - 2005

n the late 1990s, Knowledge Management (KM) and Communities of Practice (CoPs) seemed inseparable. CoPs appeared to offer the key to reversing the failure of some of the earlier technologically based attempts to manage knowledge. However, the original CoP concept was built around a very...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076861

Knowledge Management: Are We Missing Something?

Hildreth, Paul; Wright, Peter; Kimble, Chris - EconWPA - 2005

As commercial organisations face up to modern pressures to downsize and outsource they have begun to realise that they have lost knowledge as people leave and take with them what they know. This knowledge is increasingly being recognised as an important resource and organisations are now taking...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134487

Knowledge Management in Knowledge Intensive Service Networks: A Strategic Management Perspective

Blaich, Günther; Evanschitzky, Heiner; Kenning, Peter; … - EconWPA - 2004

Knowledge is the key to gaining and sustaining competitive advantage. Driven by a change in consumer needs towards “comprehensive service solutions”, more and more services are offered through networks. By so doing, individual firms can concentrate on their distinctive competencies and by...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408132

Computer Mediated Communications and Communities of Practice

Hildreth, Paul; Kimble, Chris; Wright, Peter - EconWPA - 2005

Within the Knowledge Management context, there is growing interest in computer support for group knowledge sharing and the role that Communities of Practice play in this. Communities of Practice are groups of individuals with a common purpose and who share some background, language or...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412885

Knowledge Management in Non-Governmental Organisations: A Partnership for the Future

Vasconcelos, José; Seixas, Paulo Castro; Lemos, Paulo Gens - EconWPA - 2005

This paper explores Knowledge Management (KM) practices for use with portal technologies in Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). The aim is to help NGOs become true Civil Society Organizations (CSOs). In order to deal with more donors (at the top) and more beneficiaries (at the bottom), NGOs...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118771

The Cultural Economy of Paris

Scott, Allen J. - EconWPA - 2005

The cultural economy is defined in terms of a set of sectors ranging from certain traditional artisanal industries like clothing or jewelry on the one side, to newer media industries like sound recording or television program production on the other. I provide an overview of the industrial...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119001